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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23
What Was Done with IN. Money.

Mrs. Cupid permits US to make an
extract from letter lately received
from Mrs. Robert Briggs, who is now
in San Francisco. The subject relates
to the money that was raised here for
the Mooney boy tor the purpose of
surgical operation on his foot. Mrs.
Briggs says: Il have received the
money from you that was subscribed
by the people of Taylor and nave paid
il to the doctor for the child. The
doctor agreed to treat the child for
year and furnish necessary appliances.
There was $45 As left after paying the
doctors bill, which | gave Mrs.
Mooney to buy crutches and pay some
other expenses. The child Is doing
nicely and the doctor thinks he can
he cured without much trouble,
though it will take time. Please tell
the people of Taylor, who contributed
So generously Ia the worthy object.
that the money is being judiciously
expended for a most worthy purpose,
and that the end they had in view
making the poor crippled child sound
will be accomplished !"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23
"Grant''--I0 Hands 1 la Inches.

He was mad, and he had good rea-
son to be. We mean w. N. McGill,
whom we met down at Ely few days
ago. When fully explained, the cause
of his pent-up wrath was that the
NEWS man, by the commission of a
figure al" had made his adj. of the fine
stallion 'Grant" read "6 hands IA
inches" instead of 10 hands IL
inches, which were the right figures.
We Gained him down with the assur-
ance that "Con.n never noticed the
blunder, and that ou. of remorse we
would commit suicide as soon as we
got home.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23
How 90 Get RID OF Rats and Mice.

A writer in the Scientific American
says he cleaned his premises OF the
detsstible vermin by making white.
wash yellow with copperas. In every
crevice where rats may go, he put the
crystals of the copperas, and scattered
it in the corners of the floor. The re-
suit was the complete disappearance
of rats and mine. Since that time
not a rat or mouse has been seen
near the house. Every spring the
cellar is coated with the yellow wash
as a purifier and rat exterminator, and
no dysentry or typhoid fever attacks
the family. Never allow rats and mice
to be poisoned in the house; they are
apt to die between the walls and pro-
duce much annoyance.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23

Sol Frankel, who was acquitted on
all the charges for embezzlement in
the late stock transactions in Virginia
City, last week, got on the train for
San Francisco, and was followed by
John Quinn, one of his victims, who
tried to force a settlement with
Frankel. Failing in this, he drew a
cooked revolver and was in the act of
blowing out the brains of the default
ing broker, when one of the passengers
grabbed the pistol and prevented the
murder.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23
New Goods! New Goods I

Mrs. w. b. Graham has on hand and
is constantly receiving a lage Spring
and Summer stock of ladies and chill
dren's dress goods, hannels, ginghams,
calicoes. hats, and everything usually
kept in first-class dry goods store,
which she is selling as cheap as can be
had anywhere. Ladies, call and ex-
anime my stock and prices and be
convinced that for cash you can buy
at home as cheap as abroad, besides
having the satisfaction of seeing what
you are buying.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23
Thomas Flanagan, of Readstown

Thomas Flanagan, OF heaustU"u,
Vernon county, Wisconsin, brother
of the late Pat Flanagan, came in from
the East last Saturday morning to look
after his brothers estate. He went
out to Spring Valley and returned a
few days ago. He is quite an old
man, being two years the senior of his
brother. In early days Mr.. Flanagan
was miner in California, but for the
last quarter of a century has been liv.
ing on a farm in Wisconsin. He had
not heard from his brother Pat in
twenty years, and then only after his
death.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23

Eureka Sentinel: Hi Cole and fam
ily left yesterday morning for Elko.
On arriving there Mrs. Cole and the
children will 60 to Tuscarora, and Ill
will 90 to Ceur d'Alene. Their many
friends here wish them success wher-
ever they may 60.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23
POsTOFFICE HOURS.

Mall opens A, N. and closes iOP' n.
u.o,stered mall closes at Pm.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-04-23

John Nelson aud wife are on their
way back from the East.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26
NLMs OF THE MORNIN

EAsTERE.-The President has approved
the Chinese indemnity bill..... Commodore
William T. Truxton is dead. There will
be no special session of the United States
Senate IA six-story warehouse was
burned in Baltimore yesterday morning
1.-THE famous Delayan House at Albany,
n Y, has been sold Atlantic emigrant
rates have been advanced......A 800, 900
theater is TO he built in New York;. The
Joint Assembly of West Virginia has adj
j0urned without electing an United States
Senator. Silver in New York, 101f.
FoREfGN.-Russia is massing troops at
VladiTostock on the Corean frontier......
The loss CT life by the earthquake is not as
great as has been reported -. Goblet, the
French Prime Minister, has sent 10000
francs to The earthquake sufferers at Nice
.....Silver in London, 46sd.
PAcIFIc CoAsT-The authorities OF Mer
ced are clearing out the tranips. The
Livermore Board of Trade numbers over
1G0 members......T The wine shipments East
from Napa are $4,000 gallons per week..
Nothing has been heard yet from the Napa
murderer. Riverside has postponed lis
Citrus fair.....C. B. Wingate, County
Treasurer of Tulare. is dead......Jerome
Brumley and family had a narrow escape
from drowningi in The Salinas riyer......Con-
siderable damage was done by the heavy
snow above MaTiposa...... Bishop Blanchet,
of Washington Territory, IS dead......The
Grand Army Eucanpment at Los Angeles
has adjourned sine die.
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uNEcoNoMIc g ECONOMY. y

We fail to understand the uneconomic
ECONOMY" which yesterday induced the
Senate to cut down the amount of the con-
tingent fund petitioned for for protecting
the State in case cholera, yellow fever
or smallpox threaten to become epidemic
here The State Board of Health, which
must be presumed to be independent of
personal and political influences, and to be
we'll informed and cool in the matter, in its
report to the Legislature has very clearly
laid bare the necessity for setting aside
fund to be used by the Governor and
Board in establishing border quarantine
stations and barriers against the ingress of
pestilence. The bill in question provided
that $4,000 should be so used. 4 motion
to cut down the figure to $1,000 was about
to prevail yesterday, when some one sug-
gested that at least $1,000 beset aside for
seIf-defense and it was done On the third
aiding the original figure should be re-
stored. There seemed to be woful lack of
information on the part of the Senate as to
the grave need for the measure, and there
was really manifest unaccountable obtuse-
ness concerning the purpose of the bill.
We had supposed that after the experience
under Governor Perkins administration;
the recommendations of the State Boards
of Health for a number of years, notably
that for 1867, now upon the desks OF the
IN mbers; that after the publicity given TO
the subject By the press and the medical
societies; after receipt of news that
cholera threatens us Japanward, and yell
low fever on the south, and that smallpox
has already broken out in the State; that
( after all these facts of public notoriety and
official discussion, the Senate would be
we'll informed and fully alive to the dan
ger. But it was not, OBJ it never would
have committed itself to the penny wise
| policy. We have border line nearly
7, 2 30 miles in length, and upsn at lea
three sides we may lie assaulted
by pestilenee. For a State of such pro-
portions the reservation of $4,000 for two
wears. to be used only when absolutely
necessary, is pitifully small. If cholera
or yellow fever gain entrance within the
State by reason of narrow economy and alb
s.nce of wise precautionary measures, a
thousand times twenty thousand dollars
will not measure the damage that will as
suredly result, and this is placing the esti-
mate at miserably low figure. Once let
cholera or yellow fever be announced in
California, as we have known both to be in
other States, and half decade of total
exemption from both thereaf er, will not
restore the damaged reputation of the
State, or wholly re-establish lost trade and
| influence. Probably because wolf has
been shouted so frequently, without the
appearance of the dreaded monster, legis-
lators have come to think il not possible
for the GLORIOUS climate of California !"
to be assaulted by any sort of
plague. But it should be con-
sidered that the fact that the cry Of
alarm has 50 often proven false, is cause
for prcfoundest qualification. We can at
least hope it viii forever prove false. But
the necessity for PRESERVATION, the need for
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26

readiness the wisdom of keeping our arms
of defense near at hand and in good order,
are not to be set aside by the fancied secu-
rity born of years of exemption. 1t is the
unexpected that happens, but it Is also
true that it is the hight of wisdom to be
prepared for the expected. The Legis-
lature may not expect cholera, yellow
fever or smallpox to enter our ports, or
cross our borders, but the State Board of
Health does expect them to do so, and de-
sires the people to be prepared with de-
lenses. If its anticipation fails of realiza-
ton no harm will have been done, and the
State win have expended nothing. If,
however, the plague in any form overtakes
| us, and we have but scanty purse provided
| for the contingency, for the consequent i'll
guard maintained and insufficient quar-
antine established we will certainly reap
| disasters which will make the Legislature
that refused to provide in the day of safety
for TIE hour of possible assault, by-word
in the mouths of the people and the object
of their curses. The gentlemen compos-
ing the State Board of Health have done
their duty, have laid the needs of the State
before both houses, and have indicated
what action it is wise to take. If the
Legislature understands the matter better
than its chief medical and sanitary adj
wiser, that ends the question, and the State
will proceed upon its way with war pest
Hence fund barely twice as large as the sum
legislative committees have spent in junk
| citing about the State.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26
He Wa, Going to Huild.

Collector twho has just entered private
residence. to Colonel Slow)-Well, sir,
have called to present this bill.
Colonel-Much obliged, but 1 am not ac-
ceptiDg any presents.
Collector (frowning)-That's all right /:
but when ! presented it to you on the street
the other day yor told me to call at your
office.
Colonel-Why didn't you call =?
Collector walked all over the town and
found that you have no office.
Colonel-Let me see; that's fact but,
say. intend to build me an office, and I'll
promise You that il will be good one, too
my dear commercial. but iholghtless sir
irnbbing his hands,, / have made it rule
never to pay bills on the street.
Collector-This is not on the street
Colonel-Or in my private residence; a
mans Office is the place for the transaction
of such business.
Collector-Confound it, didn't say that
you have no Office.
Colonel-Of course but, confound it, did
not tell you that | am going to build an
office, and a good one, too. want you to
understand. sir. that when i do anything |
do it right. thought Of putting in black
walnut furniture; what do you think of it ?
Don't you think that walnut is better than
cherry? BY the way, if at any time you
should think of an idea. don't be backward
in suggesting it am never offended by the
advice of friends; well, good day.-Arkan.
eos T..JreyyT
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26

THE terrible earthquake that has con-
yuIsed portions of Italy and France APP
pears to have resulted in such great loss of
life and property as to make it the peer
for ill OF the great earthquakes of Lisbon,
in 1855; of Java, in 1772, and of Caracas, in
1872. No calamity is so appalling, no eff
fort of nature so terrifying as the tremb-
lings and upheavings of the crust of the
earth. Men can anticipate and face other
dangers; in the presence of this they are
powerless either to resist or to flee, and
hence it is that these commissions result in
such complete decentralization of commu-
mites of men, and so utterly break up the
ordinary discipline of civilized groups.
The accounts of this weeks earthquake
are horrible in detail, and thrill the soul
with the awfulness of the disaster. When
we read of hundreds of men, women and
children being crushed to death by collaps-
ing church structures and falling walls
of the population of large towns being dec
mated of hundreds of people being sud-
denly buried alive, and whole States
shaken and rocked by the unseen power
within the bowels of the earth, we can
form some idea of the awfulness Of the
night of woe that hangs over the north
west Mediterranean coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26

THE RrNGs OF SATURN.-The constitution
of s;aturn's rings, and questions connected
with them, are now prominent themes for
the attention of men of science. Opinion
is divided about dark line in the outer
iing. whether it be produced bya darker
shading of the ring or whether it be the
sky beyond showing through the opening.
II a star or other object should be seen
through the dark spaces, the question
would be settled. Some astronomers OF
note think that the rings are approaching
the planet Measurements of exceeding
delicacy will be required to establish this
theory. Saturn's oppositions will afford
the best conditions for seeing stars in the
dark spaces between the rings, and finding
if The distance lessons between the body OF
the planet and the rings. One only needs
to look at this wonder of the skies through
a good telescope 10 realize in some faint
degree, the practieed hand. the delicacy OF
vision, the activity of brain and the pro-
found scientific preparation required for a
solution of either problem Providence
Journal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

Four cases of diphtheria were reported
at the Health Office Thursday.
The car strikers, with the aid of tie
Federated Trades, propose to construct a
cable road on Post street.
Two women and six men were sent back
to China on the Oceanic by order OF the
United States District Court
Levi 3. Mastic, for many years prom
inent business man of this city, died last
Wednesday night at his home in San Jose,
at the age of 80 years.
The Flaxseed Company are preparing
their building alongside of the East Oak
land Cotton Mills. for the reception OF
machinery now on the way aroui.d the
Horn.
Of the capital stock of the Proctor
Wooden Mills, $3.50 GOO has been subscribed
out of 100000. with the understanding
that the mills will be located in Oakland or
It's suburbs.
Edwin st. John, an English sailor, Is
years of age, died at the City and County
Hospital Thursday from the effects of
chloral and opium, which he had taken to
relieve pain.
John e. Sites, one of the men arrested
as dynamiteIs and charged with felony
lor attempting 10 destroy street car prop
erty, was found guilty of carrying a con-
ceaied weapon Thursday.
The jury in the case of Charles Moore vs..
Pope & Talbot. returned a verdict in favor
Of the plaintiff for 1000. Moore was a
sailor on one OF defendants ships, and
broke his nose by falling through an open
hatchway.
A number of British sealing schooners
which have been for q few weeks lowering
around in the vicinity of brakes Bay in a
suspicious manner, have awakened a sus-
pcion of smuggling on large scale and
Collector Hager will send the revenue
cutter Richard Rush to look after them
Several months ago the Oakland Jute
Mills brought out a large number of girls
from Scotland TO take the place OF the
Cinnamon employed in the mills. The
managers say that the experiment proved
failure, since all but three of the girls
have abandoned the work. having found
other and probably more profitable employ
menf. Many American girls, born in Oak
land, have taken thei. places and are Civ
ing satisfaction to the management.
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tain, but cannot do much since the late

tain, but cannot do much since the late
snow storm.
Trains are DELAYED in reaching Ashland
slides, but the detention is only of short
duration. South of this place the railroad
seems to be badly demoralized since the
9Th, only one train coming through on the
9th after a determined effort with snow
plows. Since that time slides have covered
up the track at several points that may re-
quire several days more hard work 10 re-
move.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
announces officially the re 'ucticn OF the
distance of California and Oregon staging
to fifty miles, and that Pullman sieepers
are to be run between Redding and Mon
tague. This arrangement has been Knocked
out by reason of The heavy storm. as pas
sengers and. mail are left at Edison :, eish-
teen miles south of Yreka, in consequence
Of no accommodations at Montague yet fol
either the passengers or stage horses.
About six weeks ago, says the Ashland
| ffdtags, the completed section of the Cen
| trail and Oregon Railroad from Ashland
| northward, one hundred miles, was exam
| ined by the special Commissioners appoint
ed by the President, and dispatch vi the
| I'd says the Government, on tha favorab {
report of the Commission, has accepted the
road as correctly built and completed
| Hereafter the company will be more care
full about making through connections ano
regular time on this part OF the road than
ever before. Twice as many men as las
winter will he employed to keep the track
clear when the thaw and land slide season
| opens.
The gravel trains on railroad in Shasta
valley secure gravel at Julien's for ballast
| ing the track northward
The railroad company have moi beer
| able to get much work done for the past
two weeks, as the Cinnamon refuse to work
in stormy weather, or in the mud and
snow. All the grading accomplished now
is by two gangs of white men. The track
layers have laid rails only short distance
north of Montague. A restaurant building
is now being constructed at Montague, and
as soon as the lumber is received the stage
company will commence putting up "a barn
Yreka Journal February 10th.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26
TOPOLOBAMPO.
The First Spanish Explorers Found it a
Lions Den.


How many of the Topolobampo colonisis
VINO at present are laying out their town
and building roads on the banks of the
river Fuerte, know that they stand on old
historical ground? Perhaps they have no
time TO attend to the past, yet they are on
the identical spot where one of the first ex-
ploripg expeditions OF the conqueror of
Mexico was nassacred. In 1872, accord
ing to Hubert Howe Bancrofts History of
California, Cortes dispatched two vessels
from Iacatula, on the west coast of Mexico,
under Huriado de Mendoza bis cousin,
and MenZuela. Their object was nothing
less than to reach Asia, which was believed
to be connected with America in the far
north. The vessels touched at Santiago,
discovered the Tres Marias and, after a long
storm, anchored at an unknown spot on
the coast. Provisions being nearly ex-
hausted, part of the me.. became mutinous
and returned southwark with one vessel.
which afterwards was driven ashore in
Banderas Bay. Here the natives fell upon
the party and killed all with the exception
of two or three, who escaped to Colima.
Hurtado, with tie men remaining loyal,
resumed bis northward course, and finally
ran into the mouth of the river Fuerte or
Tamotchala. 1t is sincerely to be hoped
that our Topolobampo colonists will get
along with the natives better than the
Spanish explorers in 1882 at that time
the inhabitants of the coast seem to have
been firmly opposed to foreign immigra-
ton, giving signal proof of their senti-
ments by slaughtering the Spaniards to the
last man.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-26

A FACTORY at Madgeburg, Germany, is
producing sugar from coal tar. This
" saceharine the name it bears-was
discovered by German chemist at the
Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore.
Some establishment may naturally be ex-
pressed when We state that it is proven the
new product is two hundred and thirty
times sweeter than the best cane sugar, and
that it undergoes no fermentation. By
combination with glucose made from
corn. it is believed ii can be made into SUI
gar and syrup that will compete with cane
sugar and syrup to the great injury of the
latter commercially. Its intense sacchar-
inc quality can be best understood from
the statement that two parts of it to one
thousand of glucose give a product as
sweet as the sugar of commerce. While 1t
is prophesied, confidently, that the new
article will crush sugar-growing ut
terly, and give immense impor-
lance 10 glucose manufacture, an
other scientist of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity expresses the conviction that the
new article never viii come into general
use, because its production will prove too
expensive. Yet capital has sufficient con-
fidence in the discovery to erect the factory
at Madgeburg. We have been unable to
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THE CAILFoRNIA RAIsIN CRoP The CAL
ifornia raisin crop for 1856 reached a total
of over 700 eco boxes. 20 pounds each; and
for 1887 product of over 1000 900 boxes
is estimated, as a great many new vine
yards are constantly coming into bearing.
As matter of interest, showing the Cali
fornia raisin product year by year, here are
few figures, starting at the year 1870. A
few raisins were produced in California
previous to that time, but they did not cut
any figure until 1875, and even then there
was no trade for them outside the local
markets. There were in 1879, IL 900 boxes:
1876, 10000; 1877, - 600; 1873, As 600
1879. 65.0OO 1880, - 600; 1881, 10000;
1882. $4,000; 1882, 125 600; 1891. 10000 /;
1885. 500 600: 1886. 703 600. From this it
will be noticed hat the increase of the in
dustry from 1873 to 1881, while steady,
was not large; but after that, many new
vineyards came into bearing, the industry
began to attract attention. and the product
increased, until it reached last year, over
700 900 boxes.-Prairie Farmer.
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find any reference in all that has been
written concerning "saccharine" any
statement of its effects upon the
human system. 1t seems to be taken
for granted that it is as harmless
as the ordinary sugar Of commerce. 1t is
probable that the scientists have given this
branch of the subject study, but have not
thought it necessary to inform the public
of the result. From this we must assume
that the analytical inquiry has established
the harmlessness of the product, though it
must be confessed that the base from which
it is extracted reyolts the taste in con-
temptation.
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Railroad Items.

The railroad men at Montague are busily
engaged in spreading gravel hauled by ihe
gravel trains The plat of the new town
will soon be surveyed and ready for APP
prevail by the company. 1t would have
been completed before now, but for the
heavy rain and snow-storms OF the past
Two weeks or more.
Graham's party of surveyors are still al
work on the north side Of Siskiyou gnaun